Centre for Photonics and Nanotechnology (SONA PAN) was inaugurated on 4th January 2010. The SONA PAN is one of the Research & Development centre in the India’s leading   technical education institution of Sona College of Technology. This centre has state of the art nano-fabrication and characterization techniques to enable the development of cutting edge nanoscale technologies for various applications such as Nano photonics, MEMS/NEMS, semiconductor optoelectronics, free space optical communications, next generation solar cells and crystal growth.

Objectives

• To carryout numerical calculation of strain field in InAs embedded Quantum dots.
• To fabricate Low cost, High Efficiency third generation Solar Cells.
• To fabricate Organic-Polymer hybrid Solar Cells.
• To fabricate semiconductor Micro-tubes and Plates by strain driven self assembling technique for monolithic integration and Optical switching.
• To fabricate long wave length Quantum Dot (QD) based devices for fiber optic and free space optical communications.
• Green synthesis of Nanoparticles for Solar cell and bio-medical application.
• To fabricate Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) for display applications.
• To Growth of Non-Linear Optical (NLO) Crystals.
• To synthesis Metal Sulfide and Metal oxide Nanostructures for water purification.